The areas of attack here are around Shechem and Mount Gerizim, and the latter would, in Samaritan tradition, become known as the cosmic “navel of the world.” See Daniel Bodi, The Book of Ezekiel and the Poem of Erra, Orbis biblicus et ...
She was to make an inner journey of discovery, seeing in her condition some analogy with the global unrest of our times. This is a story which prompts haunting reflection on the mystical nature of human 'presence'.
An advocate for Palestinian human rights offers an insider's view of the Israeli peace movement, drawing on anecdotes, interviews, and letters to raise awareness about the sufferings of political prisoners, the state's increasing tolerance ...
Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish civilization, the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, and the Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, October 30-31, 2016.
Now, however, they are both thirteen and it is 1937 in Vienna. Inge is Jewish and Lieselotte, at the insistence of her Nazi father, is in the Hitler Youth. Their friendship has become unwise, even dangerous to sustain.
Next Year in Jerusalem
Next Year in Jerusalem
Jewish stories set in Jerusalem, adapted from the Talmud and Midrash, Hasidic sources, and oral tradition, with origins in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Spain, Italy, and Greece.
Next Year in Jerusalem: Portraits of the Jew in the Twentieth Century
Next Year in Jerusalem
A brutal re-imagining of the Gospel story, Next Year in Jerusalem follows the footsteps of Yeshua Bar-Yosif--an illiterate, epileptic, bastard son of a Roman soldier on his ill-fated life journey...